Improvement in brush wash-boards and rollers



Patented September I6, 1873.

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Per

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ISAAC HUssEY, OF IRONTON, 01110.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRUSH WASH-BOARDS AND ROLLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,853, datedSeptember 16, 1873 application filed June 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC HUSSEY, of Ironton, in the county of Lawrenceand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in BrushWash-Board and Roller; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, refer;

- ence being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my improved brushwash-board. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same taken through theline 00 00, Fig.1. Fig. 3 is a detail section of the brush-roller.

My invention relates to the application of bristle-brushes in theoperation of washing clothes. Heretofore the bristles have been appliedupon the periphery of rolls which, rotatin g upon the clothes placedbetween them, carried the articles through by contact-friction. As,however, both rolls moved, the rubbing-friction was found to be tooslight to entirely effect the object in view.

To overcome this objection I employ a roller that is made both to rotateand reciprocate over the clothes, which are themselves spread upon astationary subjacent brush, as hereinafter described.

A represents a stationary brush, made of about the size of thecorrugated or rubbing part of an ordinary wash-board. To the edges ofthe brush is attached a frame, 13, whose side bars extend a little belowthe lower edge of the brush A to serve as feet. part of the frame 13,above the upper edge of the brush A, is formed a recess or compartmentto receive the soap. (3 is a small wooden cylinder, with radial holes toreceive the bristles D. The journals of the cylinder (3 work in eyes inthe ends of the wire-bail E, to the middle part of which is attached ahandle, F, as shown in Fig. 3.

' In using the machine the article is spread upon the brush A, and theroller-brush G 1) E F moved gently up and down upon it, said brush beingimmersed in the suds between each downward and upward movement.

The brush-roll D maybe operated by hand, as shown, by hand mechanism, orby power applied in any suitable manner my invention consisting in theapplication of rotary and reciprocating motion to one brush and holdingthe other rigid and'stationary.

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